[…] influences entered the lives of pioneers and shaped their character as well as their assumptions about their world. From the writings of ordinary people, as well as from the exalted, the volume records their […]
[…] just recently published, had led him, he reported, through a reverse hegira back to Mormon Utah in search of his traces in the past, towards a discovery of that which is unique and that […]
[…] “Pray, take it away. It has no personality.” I cannot imagine how the finest cook in the world could endow tapioca pudding with personality. But I do know how a scholar can endow a […]
[…] presents the premise that Utah started as an agrarian society of Mormons seeking isolation from the larger world among the Indian settlements. But by the turn of the century the inevitable influx of settlers […]
I want to say it’s been swell knowing you, even as you grow toward the grave, hurt hours when your confinement will set free that body from its berth within the womb.
[…] informed Dialogue that his long-awaited bibliography of Leonard Arrington’s works was ready—and that it would coincide with the 20th anniversary of Arrington’s trailblazing Great Basin Kingdom. We agreed that the winter issue would be the […]
[…] of Chinese-Portugese descent, converted to Mormonism, and with luck and ability, competed successfully in a male-dominated business world. The Blending is the recounting of the family history, the cultural, generational and personal conflicts and […]
[…] the book of Genesis as an historical and not just a mythological work is revolutionary in the world of modern scholarship increasingly skeptical in such matters. W. D. Davies, displaying a more detailed search […]
[…] back to the fall of Mussolini’s Fascist regime before the advancing Allied armies toward the end of World War II. The Italian Communist Party (PCI), its ranks swelling with militant former resistance fighters, made […]
[…] album include Walther’s little known Third Organ Concerto and a flawless rendition of J. S. Bach’s finger- breaking Fugue in G Major (the “Jig Fugue”), played in a crisp, detached style which recalls Schreiner […]